31 replies to this topic

[Gaffer]

this is a local site for local people...



does seem a bit strange the price to suddenly jump up, i know the prices of classics rise, but £2.5K in less then a day?

would be nice to see some pics

[mk3 Cooper S]

No wonder why you didn't post up any pictures!!!


http://www.classicca...hp/carno/119276

Cuckooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!

[Teapot]

I see this forum is not for me...I will not be replying anymore...

Translation:
Oops, I've been rumbled

[cooper s wannabe]

So Pete

are you the webmaster, marketing and sales or admin??

http://www.historic-...zar/contact.php

Yes I own the web site..it's also for sale..
Please contact me if anyone is interested: [email protected]

Does anyone know where the first 6 cars are now located??..
101
102
103
104
105
106
107 -Chichester

wouldn't 101 be 621 AOK

[Brams96]

I thought they crash tested 1 or 2 of the first ones. Or did they do that then start the numbering?

Funny how his first price was £12.5k then it went up to £15k and it's now on another website for only £11.5k. Still I wouldn't pay anywhere near that for it in it's current state, maybe if it was restored already.

[DAVEY_C]

only in it for the money, i assume from his attitude and website that he was only fishing to see if any older mini's still igsisted or is his in fact the oldest in the world, because we people told him what he didn't want to hear he got strappy and fecked off..... seem's to have no apreciation for anything or value for anything apart from what he can sell it for...

[mab01uk]

Interesting and historic Mini, more photos here............second advert down:

http://www.1959minir...for-salewanted/

Quotes from early Mini 'experts' on Mk1 performance:
A "reasonably" intact VERY, VERY early car, probably the earliest surviving genuine Mini in the country, possibly the world. Number 8 off the line is a remarkably early number and it is to a great extent complete & unmolested.

its just a shame it wasnt stored in a dry warm garage - but better to have been badly stored than just thrown away in the mid 1980's when it was worth nothing

As it goes....a very very early car.....pretty important...look at early split VW's...touching $60K....all minis are not created equal, one day this will be a very valuable car IMO...

http://mk1-forum.net....php?f=5&t=1375

[mk3 Cooper S]

An early car no doubt but everything on it needs work.
A drivers door off a 59 /60 car will be very hard to find along with all the other bits and bobs.

Not sure about the trim. My Farina grey 1960 in the same colour has a blue brocade type but I am not sure about a 59 model.

Also the chassis numbers on the early cars may not mean #8 as due to demand some of the pre production cars were sold.

Valuable one day for sure but at cooper s money not worth anything like 11.5 for me but maybe someone in Japan or simular may see it differently?

[mk1mark]

Although the guy obviously has what is to some people a very interesting early car he is hardly going to help sell it by instantly going off in a huff when folks who aren't even interested in buying balk at an £11,500, £12,000 or is it £15,000 price tag on a car that is by the look of the pictures stored in a swamp where it is detiorating by the minute & will at best require the thick end of another 10 grand spending on it to make it something like respectable.

I have always understood that you are more likely to catch bees using honey that vinegar.

Edited by mk1mark, 14 December 2010 - 12:55 PM.

[Tommyboy12]

Interesting and historic Mini, more photos here............second advert down:

http://www.1959minir...for-salewanted/

Considering the advert directly below is £11.5k for a fully restored pre-production Mini with twelve months MOT and tax i think id rather take the restored car.

[olds_kool_lews]

i sold a genuine morris mini '59 engine on the 1959register! bill was especially helpfull with sourcing the right buyer! but i think even bill would struggle to sell that '59 for 11 n half grand!

[1380sprint]

what a sham!

[darky32]

Think you guys are right ...a case of "oh no i have been sussed out" lets do a runner

we should have said to him that we have cars 101-106 stashed away and are fully restored and would sell for around £5000 each He is obviously someone that worries more about money than the car he owns and its heritage

" Sorry to wee on your chips" has to be one of the best phrases i have heard in ages

[MrMiniSpecial]

" Sorry to wee on your chips" has to be one of the best phrases i have heard in ages .

brilliant!

[clovus]

Interesting mini but methinks it would be a very challenging resto, just finding the correct bits and trim would be a nightmare.